Waterlogging in Dadar after a heavy downpour. (Express Photo: Nirmal Harindran)
Mumbai Rains Live Updates: Heavy rains continued to lash Maharashtra as several low-lying areas of Thane and Palghar districts were inundated, PTI reported. As per reports from the disaster control room at Palghar, talukas of Dahanu, Jawhar and Vikramgad have experienced heavy downpour, while water-logging was witnessed in the Vasai-Virar region. Teams of NDRF have been stationed at both regions, PTI quoted NDRF commandant Rajendra Patil as saying.
Meanwhile, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a red alert for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) and some other parts of Maharashtra for Wednesday. The red alert was issued for the second consecutive day as rains continued to lash Mumbai and adjoining districts since Tuesday. The alert was issued for Mumbai, Thane, Palghar, Raigad, Pune, Ahmednagar and Nashik districts. While the warning for Mumbai is only for Wednesday, that for Thane, Palghar and Nashik is for Wednesday and Thursday.
On Tuesday, several areas were waterlogged in the city, hampering the movement of people. Transport services on the main and harbour lines of Vadala and Parel remain suspended. However, shuttle services between Vashi, Panvel and Kalyan are operating as of now, Mumbai’s Central Rail Chief Public Relations Officer confirmed.
The intensity of rain is likely to decrease from August 6.
Top angle view of the Fort and the eastern waterfront from Taj Hotel. (Express File Photo: Amit Chakravarty)
People share videos on Twitter as heavy rains lash parts of Mumbai city.
Shivaji M Sutar, Chief Public Relations Officer, Central Railway: Due to heavy rainfall and waterlogging at Masjid-Sandhurst Road section, Harbour line trains between CSMT-Vadala stations have been suspended from 15.35 hrs onwards.
Despite heavy downpour, suburban areas, express and suburban trains on Central Railway lines are running without disruptions, said Shivaji M Sutar, Chief Public Relations Officer, Central Railway.
A five-year-old girl was rescued after she was left clinging to a tree for over four hours during a flash flood due to heavy rains in Dahanu taluka of Maharashtra's Palghar district on Wednesday, an official said.
As heavy rains lashed the district on Tuesday night, the girl's house in Shenshai got flooded, prompting her family to walk to a safer place in the early hours of the day, the district official said. While crossing a bridge along the way, the girl got separated from her parents due to the strong water current and climbed a tree, he said.
The girl remained clinging to a tree branch for over four hours, before being rescued by villagers at around 6 am, the official said. The child was rushed to a hospital, where she is presently undergoing treatment, he added. (PTI)
Heavy rains continued to lash Maharashtra as several low-lying areas of Thane and Palghar districts were inundated, PTI reported. As per reports from the disaster control room at Palghar, talukas of Dahanu, Jawhar and Vikramgad have experienced heavy downpour, while water-logging was witnessed in the Vasai-Virar region. Teams of NDRF have been stationed at both regions, PTI quoted NDRF commandant Rajendra Patil as saying.
However, no rain-related casualties were reported in the district, it was stated.
Meanwhile, several incidents of tree falling and cases of vehicle damage were reported in different parts of Thane district, said Santosh Kadam, chief of the Thane civic body's regional disaster management cell.
Heavy rains caused nullahs in Thane, Kalyan and Bhiwandi cities to swell and flood low-lying areas, he said. Apart from this, a compound wall of a hospital in Thane city's Owale area collapsed on a house, but no casualties were reported in the incident, Kadam added. (PTI)
Train movement on the Western Railway route in Palghar was affected due to heavy rain in the morning. According to railway sources, suburban services were stopped due to water-logging on tracks at Palghar station. However, despite heavy rains in various suburbs, the Western Railways suburban services were running normal between Churchgate and Dahanu Road.
On the central line, there was water-logging on tracks in Sion and Kurla areas and trains were running with some delays, PTI quoted sources.
Central Railway's chief spokesperson Shivaji Sutar said their suburban services, from the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus to Kasara (Thane), Khopoli (Raigad), Panvel (Navi Mumbai) and Goregaon, were running despite the heavy showers.
Both the Central Railway and Western Railway are operating nearly 350 special train services each daily for those working in essential and emergency services.
Bus services of the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST), the city civic body's transport wing, were also affected due to water-logging on some roads. (PTI)
Heavy rains lashed parts of Mumbai and neighbouring Thane and Palghar districts of Maharashtra on Wednesday, affecting some local train and bus services due to water-logging on rail tracks and roads, officials said.
Water-logging was reported in low lying areas of Chembur, Parel, Hindmata, Wadala, and other areas of Mumbai. (PTI)
Advising people to drive safely during the monsoon season, Mumbai Police on Wednesday tweeted: "Neither ‘fast’ nor ‘furious’ is the way to go during monsoon. Drive safe. #Slow&Steady."
Rainfall received in 12-hours (ending at 5:30 am today)
Dahanu (Palghar) -- 364 mm
Bhayander (Thane) -- 169 mm
Mira Road 159 mm
Thane city, Dombivli and Kalyan -- 120 mm
Mumbai city -- 30 mm
Bandra and Kurla -- 70 mm
Data: IMD
Mumbai and neighbouring Thane and Palghar districts received heavy rain on Wednesday morning, reported PTI. The weather department has predicted more intense showers during the day.
Mumbai and the suburbs of Bandra and Kurla received rainfall in the range of 30 to 70 mm in the last 12 hours.
Normal life disrupted in Mumbai as heavy rainfall triggers water logging at various places in the city. IMD, Mumbai has predicted heavy downpour for today.
Two fishermen are missing while 11 were rescued after a boat capsized some 12 kilometres off Gorai beach in north Mumbai on Tuesday afternoon, police said. The boat, Lucky Stat, with 13 fishermen on board, got caught in heavy rains and capsized, a Gorai police station official said. "Men from another boat in the vicinity jumped in and managed to rescue 11 of the 13 on board Lucky Stat. However, two are still missing and search operations are continuing for them. The vessel has also not been found," he informed.
The India Meteorological Department has issued a red alert for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) and some other parts of Maharashtra for Wednesday. The red alert was issued for the second consecutive day as rains have been lashing Mumbai and adjoining districts since Tuesday night.
"The red alert of extremely heavy rainfall at isolated places has been issued for Wednesday. The probability of it is very likely, which means it could actualise up to 75 per cent," an IMD official said. The alert was issued for Mumbai, Thane, Palghar, Raigad, Pune, Ahmednagar and Nashik districts, he said. While the warning for Mumbai is only for Wednesday, that for Thane, Palghar and Nashik is for Wednesday and Thursday, the official said. Extremely heavy rainfall is defined as a rainfall above 204.4 mm in 24 hours, he said. --PTI
A 35-year-old woman and her two children were swept away in a swollen nullah after their house collapsed due to heavy rainfall in suburban Santacruz here on Tuesday afternoon, an official said. The incident took place at around 11.30 am in Dhobighat locality, where a ground plus one-storey house attached to a nullah collapsed as rains lashed the area, the official from the fire brigade said. A woman and her three children, aged between one to seven years, fell into the flooded nullah and were swept away, he said. --PTI
Starting Monday night, Mumbai and its surrounding areas have been experiencing incessant heavy rainfall, leading to waterlogging in sevral areas and disruption of transport services in the city. SEE MORE HERE
Local train services were suspended on some routes in Mumbai and suburbs on Tuesday morning due to water-logging on rail tracks following heavy overnight rain in the city, officials said. The Santacruz observatory in western suburbs recorded 254 mm rainfall since Monday night while the Colaba observatory in south Mumbai recorded 220 mm rain during the same period, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
'Due to high tide resulting in water logging at Wadala and Parel suburban services are suspended on main line and harbour line. However, shuttle services are running between Vashi and Panvel & Thane and Kalyan-beyond,' Central Railway's Chief Public Relations Officer Shivaji Sutar tweeted.
A person got electrocuted after accidentally touching an electric pole in Maharashtra's Thane city on Tuesday morning following heavy overnight rains, police said. The man was standing near a temple in Ovla area on Ghodbunder Road when he accidentally touched the electric pole and got electrocuted around 8.30 am, an official from Kasarwadavali police station said.
The body was sent to the civil hospital for postmortem, he said, adding that the deceased was yet to be identified. In another incident, a part of the ceiling plaster of a building in a housing complex in Vartak Nagar fell down in the morning, but there was no report of any casualty, Thane Municipal Corporation's regional disaster management cell chief Santosh Kadam said. --PTI
The Maharashtra government announced a holiday for all its offices in Mumbai city and suburbs on Tuesday in view of the heavy rainfall in the metropolis and neighbouring areas. Heavy showers caused water-logging at several places in the city and disrupted local train services and road traffic movement.
"Due to the heavy rainfall in Mumbai and the suburban region and prediction of (more) heavy rainfall by the IMD, holiday has been declared for all state government offices in the Mumbai and Mumbai suburban region today, the state relief and rehabilitation department said in an official communication.
Bombay High Court on Tuesday adjourned its virtual hearings on various cases due to the heavy rains in Mumbai since Monday night.
A landslide on Western Express Highway in suburban Kandivali due to heavy rains on early Tuesday morning has impacted the vehicular movement from the western suburbs towards south Mumbai affecting regular commuters and those involved in emergency services as authorities closed some portion of the road for clearing the debris, officials said. The Western Express Highway (WEH) is a major north- south arterial road, stretching from Dahisar to suburban andra in Mumbai.(With PTI inputs)